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Understand the AI systems your buyers use.

CiteSurge measures each supported AI platform directly. Your team can see what the platform said, whether it mentioned your brand, which sources appeared, and when no reliable result was available.

Platform guides reviewed
OpenAI

ChatGPT: web search and visible source links

ChatGPT can answer with current web information and visible source links. For a brand, the useful question is not whether a page is theoretically eligible. It is whether the brand and its sources appear in the answers buyers actually receive.

Read the ChatGPT guide
Anthropic

Claude: web search with cited sources

Claude is used for research and decision support as well as general assistance. Measuring it independently matters because a brand can be cited, mentioned, or absent in Claude regardless of what appears in another AI system.

Read the Claude guide
Perplexity

Perplexity: source links beside the answer

Perplexity's answer format makes its source links easy to inspect. That visibility makes it possible to distinguish a cited page from a brand mention and to compare the observed source set over time.

Read the Perplexity guide
Google

Gemini: current web information and supporting links

Gemini is a separate AI system from Google Search. The reliable way to understand brand visibility there is to inspect the answer and its visible supporting links rather than infer it from a search ranking.

Read the Gemini guide
Google

Google AI Overviews: generated summaries with supporting links

AI Overviews change how information is presented inside Google Search by placing a generated answer and supporting links in the results experience. Their presence, cited sources, and wording need to be measured directly.

Read the Google AI Overviews guide
Google

Google AI Mode: deeper exploration with supporting links

Google AI Mode is separate from both Google AI Overviews and the Gemini app. Google says AI Mode is designed for questions that need further exploration, reasoning, or complex comparisons. Its answers and supporting links therefore need to be observed as their own surface.

Read the Google AI Mode guide
Microsoft

Bing Copilot: cited publisher pages

Microsoft now reports publisher citations across Copilot, AI-generated summaries in Bing, and selected partner experiences. That reporting is aggregated, so direct answer evidence still matters when evaluating a particular observation.

Read the Bing Copilot guide
xAI

Grok: web and X search with citations

Grok combines a distinct answer experience with access to current web and X information. Its answers should be observed directly because source selection and brand treatment can differ from other engines.

Read the Grok guide

A source link in ChatGPT, Perplexity, or a Google AI Overview is a recorded result from one AI system at one point in time. CiteSurge can observe eight AI systems when each provider is configured, ready, enabled for the project, and returning usable responses. It distinguishes a visible citation from an unlinked brand mention. These guides explain public, vendor-documented behavior and show the answers, mentions, citations, and missing data a team can inspect.

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